Today marks the 102nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, where some one and a half million Armenian people were deported, massacred, or marched to their death in the final days of the Ottoman Empire.

Following a tradition of denial by US administration, today Trump falsely identified the orchestrated killings as "mass atrocities", and failed to recognize the event as it was - a genocide. 

US Rep. Adam Schiff spoke today, "President Trump now joins a long line of both Republican and Democratic Presidents unwilling to confront Turkey, and by refusing to do so, he has made the United States once again a party to its campaign of denial. How can we speak with the moral clarity we must about the genocidal campaign by ISIS against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, if we are unwilling to condemn the first genocide of the last century?"

Native Americans at Dartmouth stand in solidarity with American Armenians, and Armenian people around the world, and call on the US and Turkey to recognize the killings of Armenian people during WWI as GENOCIDE.